stoop
verb (used without object)
to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position.
is stooping
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present progressiveof stoop (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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If there is anything more sickening than O’Reilly’s reported behavior, it is stooping to use his own children as a shield and the excuse of fatherly love to evade responsibility.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2017
With bowed head the baronet’s son is stooping towards her, the cloud on his brow telling of sadness—not anger.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
If it is stooping, speak to me only of arms and shoulders; I will take all else on myself.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
This woman was συγκύπτȣσα, that is, stooping forward; being unable ἀνακύψαι, or to lift up her head.
From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Richard Mead
The night is stooping to the west, the day is rising from the east, the morning red is leaping from the clouds, the sun looks through.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
